Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Serving Brother’s, breast badge, silver and enamel, with heraldic beasts in angles, the reverse engraved ‘Thomas Wilson, made Honorary Service Brother July 1922’, traces of brooch mounting to reverse, otherwise very fine £60-£80

Sold together with a two St. John Medal for South Africa 1899-1902, the first erased, the second a later re-strike struck on a thinner flan and unofficially engraved ‘985 Pte. F. Barrowclough Dewsbury & Dist Corps’; a St. John Ambulance Association Re-examination Cross in white metal, the reverse engraved ‘No. William Blundell 71487’; a miniature Order of St. John Officer’s badge; and a Masonic Jewel ‘Sons of England Royal Blue Degree 1904’, silver-gilt and enamel (hallmarks for Birmingham 1925), with top suspension shield engraved ‘Geo. Jackson Orangia Lodge 1927’, with neck riband, in Spencer, London, case.

Note: The Queen’s South Africa Medal with clasps Natal awarded to 985 Orderly F. Barrowclough, St. John Ambulance Brigade (which was itself a later issue), was sold in these rooms in April 2022.